Tuesday, 25 September 2018, W Hotel South Beach, Miami

Chairs

Enrique M. Stile joined Marval, O’Farrell & Mairal in 1997 and has been a partner since 2006. He specializes in labor and employment law. His practice in the firm focuses on full employment advice for multinational and local corporations, especially in mergers and acquisitions, transference of employees, rightsizings, union issues, compensation programs and in adapting international policies and programs to local legislation. He has also a strong background in negotiating employment conditions and termination agreements with expatriates and key employees and in multi-jurisdictional labor advice. He has been nominated as leader in his area by the international publications Chambers & Partners, Who’s Who Legal and Global Law Experts.

Keynote Speaker

Speakers

Adolfo Pineda

During 20 years in the legal profession, Adolfo has specialized in Labor & Employment as well as Immigration Law. He has extensive experience in all procedures involving the recruitment, development, negotiation, and termination of employment contracts offering critical legal advice during the development of employer-worker relationships. In Immigration Law he is expert in all stages of the process to obtain health registrations and work permits for foreign employees.

Ali Saad

Ali Saad is the Managing Partner of Resolution Economics LLC, an economics and statistics consulting firm with offices in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and New York. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in History and Economics from The University of Pennsylvania. Prior to starting Resolution Economics over 17 years ago, Dr. Saad was a partner at Deloitte & Touche LLP and Altschuler, Melvoin and Glasser LLP, and was a member of the litigation consulting group at Price Waterhouse in New York and Los Angeles.

Angélica Huacuja García

Caroline Marchi

Specialist in labor law, with strong performance in defense strategies concerning consultations and judicial and administrative proceedings. Her practice predominantly consists in the structuring of Profits and Results Participation Programs, meeting demands related to the Ministry of Public Labor Prosecution and trade union matters. Has previous experience in the areas of knowledge of retail, electronics, health, pharmaceutical, civil construction, gas, and food and beverage.

Carolyn Knox

Carolyn Knox is a member of the International practice group, which provides our clients with labor and employment law support in more than 100 countries. Carolyn works with clients in a variety of jurisdictions across South America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Catalina Santos Angarita

Catalina joined the firm in 2005 and, after completing her master's degree and professional experience abroad, she returned in 2012 to lead the Labor and Employment Team. She has more than 13 years of experience exclusively devoted to the area of labor law and social security. During that time, she has advised companies in a host of matters related to individual and collective labor law and social security issues.

Dario Abrahão Rabay

Dario is a partner of the firm in the Labour and Employment Executive Compensation practice. He represents many of the largest Brazilian and multinational companies in various industry sectors in labour disputes with labour courts and administrative labour authorities. He also advises clients in all aspects of labour and employment matters, including executive compensation and benefits.

Eileen Kett

Hugo Hernández-Ojeda Alvírez

Hugo Hernández-Ojeda is a leader in the Labor and Employment, Pension, and Social Security practice in the Mexico City office. He focuses on labor and employment, pensions, investigations and social security law.

Ignacio García

His professional practice is focused on the Areas of Corporate and Labor Laws, as well as Customs Law and International Trade for the Firm. He advises the Firm’s clients, national and international, in corporate issues, labor contracts, litigation, immigration, social security, pensions, transfers of executives, downsizing and union negotiations.

Jurate Schwartz

Jurate Schwartz is a special employment law counsel in the Labor & Employment Law Department. She devotes her practice to counseling clients in employment matters, as well as representing employers in federal and state litigations, arbitrations and administrative proceedings.

Leonardo Slinger

Leonardo Slinger, partner, born in 1959, mainly concentrates on labour and litigation. He is professor of labour law at various universities in Uruguay. His extensive practice includes advising on labour matters, as well as negotiations with unions in conflictive collective cases and social security issues. He is the author of several publications on labour-related issues, he also handles labour litigation and is the coordinator of the litigation department.

Leslie Palma

Leslie Palma is a labor and benefits attorney in Holland & Knight's Mexico City office. She has more than 20 years of experience advising clients on employment matters in the corporate sector, including individual and collective procedures. Ms. Palma also is well-versed in labor and employment due diligence of domestic and foreign companies.

2018 is a big year for politics in Latin America. Countries across the region are voting for new leaders – and some of the candidates bring to mind echoes of Latin America’s populist past. In Mexico president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, popularly known as AMLO, ran on an anticorruption crusade and is set to take office in December. Later in the year populist candidates from across the political spectrum will stand in Brazil’s presidential elections. What does populist rhetoric translate into in reality? How might labour laws change? And what’s the impact of populist US President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policies on the migration of labour from Latin America into the US?

Women in Latin America currently earn on average almost 30% less than their male counterparts. And there’s no indication that gap will close anytime soon. Despite governments across Latin America implementing legislation designed to equalise the playing field, lack of effective regulation has weakened the impact. What affirmative action can companies take? This panel considers the role external consultants can play in analysing compensation to help companies close the gender pay gap.

More and more often, multinational companies are using artificial intelligence to collect data on employees as part of assessments for promotions or internal job changes. Collecting data can also be an important tool for implementing equality of opportunity. But how will web-monitoring recruitment tools fare under increased regulatory scrutiny ushered in by data protection measures like the General Data Protection Regulation? Latin American nations have modelled their data protection laws on those of Europe, in the hope of luring investment. What consequences will the GDPR’s broad remit and territorial scope have in Latin America?

Moderator:Dario Abrahão Rabay, Mattos Filho, São Paulo

Panel:Novonil Bhattacharya, Head of HR, Emerging Markets, Tata, Miami

13.45: Networking lunch

15.00: The great divide: Unions versus the gig economy

Recent landmark legal opinions in the US and UK have thrown into doubt the continuation of the independent contractor model in its current form. Trade unions are fuelling the attack. In Latin America, strong union opposition has tainted the rising use of rides-sharing apps like Uber and Lyft. But many of the gig economy’s most vocal supporters are millennials and centennials – and they are the workforce of the future. Their expectations for work/life balance and re-thinking of traditional models of work puts them at odds with previous generations, for whom unions have traditionally held sway. This panel will consider how advances in technology are impacting the role of unions and whether they will continue to be a representative force for future generations of workers.

16.30: No more machismo? How to investigate and manage a harassment claim in a #MeToo world

All Latin American nations are signatories of the United Nations convention on the elimination of discrimination against women. And some have enshrined anti-harassment protections in legislation. But sexual harassment in the workplace pervades, against a backdrop of a regional environment where violence against women is rife. This panel considers how companies should approach internal investigations into harassment claims and what steps they can take to make their assessments objective.

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